Karl Malden: Wilbur
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Quotes
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Wilbur Hubbard : Take a look up there. Copper right?
[the Rescue helicopter carrying the 6 survivors flies overhead]
Captain Mike Turner : French Coastguard.
[looks at the helicopter through his binoculars]
Captain Mike Turner : For them to out this far, some ship must be in big trouble.
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Captain Mike Turner : [after boarding the Poseidon] That fire must've been started by the last explosion. More could come anytime.
Wilbur Hubbard : I'm telling ya it's a floating time bomb!
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Captain Mike Turner : [during the first inspection of the upside-down hull] This hole must've been cut by the rescue team from the chopper.
Wilbur Hubbard : [looking in] It seems quiet enough now.
[Mike climbs through the hole]
Wilbur Hubbard : You know if we can work our way down to the purser's office, blow the safe and then work our way back out, let's see... out the side...
Captain Mike Turner : I told you... you don't have to come along old man.
Wilbur Hubbard : I know I don't *have* to.
Captain Mike Turner : I could use you.
Wilbur Hubbard : Yeah I know that too.
Captain Mike Turner : Thank you.
Wilbur Hubbard : You don't have to thank an old man.
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[an explosion causes the safe in the Purser's office to fall through the floor and open]
Captain Mike Turner : [looking at the gold coins and cash] Well what do you know?
Celeste Whitman : Well that's one way to crack a safe.
[Celeste starts climb down into the room below]
Captain Mike Turner : Where do you think you're going?
Celeste Whitman : Let's not wait around for the cash arrive.
[Mike and Wilbur climd down into the room below with Celeste and look at the contents of the safe]
Captain Mike Turner : [picks up a gold coin] 1796.
Wilbur Hubbard : How much do you think they're worth?
Captain Mike Turner : 100 times its weight in gold.
Celeste Whitman : Bort?
Captain Mike Turner : What?
Wilbur Hubbard : Bort.
Captain Mike Turner : What's that?
Celeste Whitman : Industrial diamonds.
Captain Mike Turner : How much are they worth?
Celeste Whitman : Oh I think, 3 or $400,000 worth.
[Mike looks amazed]
Celeste Whitman : Now wait a minute, tell me the truth, is this really ours?
Captain Mike Turner : Yeah it's Salvage. Pack up and let's get out of here.
Wilbur Hubbard : [excited] Can see it now Mike? Along the Riviera? We're rich! You know what? We don't need a bank anymore do we?
[laughs]
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Wilbur Hubbard : I don't know, she could go down any moment now.
Captain Mike Turner : The Andrea Doria stayed up for more than ten hours.
Celeste Whitman : Well, I stayed up for a week once. So what?
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Nurse Gina Rowe : [about the exit the Poseidon through an underwater side door] None of us are experienced divers Captain.
Captain Mike Turner : It's our only way out. I'm going to turn you all into frogmen. No one has a choice.
[puts down 2 scuba tanks]
Captain Mike Turner : There should be 2 more Wilbur. I counted 4.
Wilbur Hubbard : One's empty. The one I'm getting is half full.
Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : Who's going in the scuba?
Captain Mike Turner : Everyone.
Celeste Whitman : Last time I went to school, 3 didn't go into 8.
Larry Simpson : What you say?
Celeste Whitman : 3 doesn't go into 8.
Wilbur Hubbard : With him, it's possible.
[meaning Mike]
Captain Mike Turner : You mean Jack Custo never taught buddy breathing?
Celeste Whitman : What's buddy...?
Captain Mike Turner : That's more than one diver on a single tank. Wilbur and I have done it before so we'll use the least air.
