The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Ned Vaughn: Seaman Beaumont - USS Dallas

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Quotes 

• [telling young Sonarman Beaumont about Jones's most embarrassing moment] 

  Watson : Seaman Jones here is into music in a big way, and he views this whole boat as his own personal, private stereo set. Well, one day he's got this piece of Pavarotti...

  Seaman Jones : It was Paganini.

  Watson : Whatever.

  Seaman Jones : It was Paganini.

  Watson : Look, this is my story, okay?

  Seaman Jones : Then tell it right, COB. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer.

  Watson : So anyway, he's got this music out in the water, and he's listening to it on his headsets, and he's just happy as a clam. And then all hell breaks loose. See, there's this whole slew of boats out in the water...

  Seaman Jones : Including one WAY out at Pearl!

  Watson : Including one way the hell out at Pearl. All of a sudden, they start hearing, Pavarotti...

  Beaumont : Pavarotti!

  Watson : Coming up their asses!

• Seaman Jones : [Jonesy is teaching Beaumont]  Hear it now?

  Beaumont : [resigned]  No.

  Seaman Jones : Beaumont, at Caltech we used to do this in our sleep! You hear it now?

  Beaumont : Wait a minute...

  Seaman Jones : Uh oh...

  Beaumont : Disparaged surface clutter...

  Seaman Jones : Yeeeesssss?

  Beaumont : I should go to SAPS?

  Seaman Jones : Correct! Seaman Beaumont, Signal Algorithmic Processing System. Give it a week and you'll be teaching at Caltech. So, like Beethoven on the computer, you have laboured to produce... a biologic.

  Beaumont : A what?

  Seaman Jones : A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do. Train her around to 269 and let's try it again?

• Seaman Jones : Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!

  Capt. Bart Mancuso : All stop! Quick quiet!

  [the ships engines are shut down completely] 

  Beaumont : What's goin' on?

  Seaman Jones : Russian captains sometime turn suddenly to see if anyone's behind them. We call it "Crazy Ivan." The only thing you can do is go dead. Shut everything down and make like a hole in the water.

  Beaumont : So what's the catch?

  Seaman Jones : The catch is, a boat this big doesn't exactly stop on a dime... and if we're too close, we'll drift right into the back of him.

• Beaumont : Won't he hear us?

  Seaman Jones : Not if we stay in his baffles, Seaman Beaumont. Not if we stay in his baffles. Come up right behind his propellor and he'll be deaf as a post!