John Bigalow Quotes in Raise the Titanic (1980)

John Bigalow: It's an odd thing, you know. I've had a few ships shot out from under me. More than my share. Three in the 1914-18 fracas, and two in 39-45. But all anybody ever asks me about is the Titanic.

Dirk Pitt: [laughs] And now I'm doing the same thing.

John Bigalow: And you're lucky you came to the right man!

John Bigalow: What a lovely thing she was... Standing as high in the water as one of your skyscrapers, longer than two rugby fields, and furnishings to match the finest mansions in England. She was one of a kind, no question about it, and God himself, they said, couldn't sink her. Then in two hours she was gone... and fifteen hundred souls with her.

John Bigalow: [Holds Titanic's pennant] I took the pennant off her before she went down.

[Hands it over to Pitt]

John Bigalow: If you manage to bring her up again, maybe you'd put it back where it belongs.