Karl Malden credited as playing...
Wilbur
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- [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]
- 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?
- 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.