- Hakada Fujimori: I am sorry to tell you, your friend is dead.
- Captain Adam Jones: [stunned] Dead...?
- Hakada Fujimori: His plane crashed returning from an Arctic expedition. No-one survived.
- Captain Adam Jones: [sadly] He never *did* like to fly!
- Captain Adam Jones: The last time I tailed a freighter, my price was 650 a month, and I had to buy my own uniforms.
- Captain Adam Jones: Look, uh, look before we go any further... exactly what country do you men represent?
- Prof. Montel: We represent many countries... as private individuals. We are scientists, former statesmen, businessmen. All volunteers. Acting independently for a common cause. Against a common enemy.
- [Capt. Jones is forced to sail before his submarine is fully ready for sea]
- Captain Adam Jones: What about the "running dive test"?
- Prof. Montel: As an amateur, might I suggest that we try the "running test" *while* we are running?
- Captain Adam Jones: Doctor, there are about a hundred ways of losing a submarine, and *you've* just come up with one of the *best*! We haven't even checked the torpedo tubes yet! You know what that means if we have to 'call on fish'? *It means we're dead!
- Captain Adam Jones: So tell me Professor, what makes a girl who looks like that get mixed up in science?
- Denise Montel: [concluding line of speech on first meeting the crew] I like you. I like you all. And I shall try my best to make you like me. As a scientist.
- [turns and exits up the bridge ladder]
- Neuman: [grinning, watching as she climbs] Man! That was quite a mouthful for a female.
- Chief Holter: That's no female. That's a scientist.
- Chief Holter: Have you blown a gasket? Nobody takes a female along on a pigboat.
- Captain Adam Jones: Look junior, are you going to give me that two-thousand-year-old navy bilge that they're bad luck? Take a look at her, what's so bad about that?