No, the navy will assume that Lieutenant Quinlan decided to remain here rather than risk the storm.
5 seconds sound clip from the Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:09:55.328 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- It's a commercial station, probably Manila or Samoa.
- It's all from beyond the area of disturbance.
- I don't get a thing on the navy bands.
- All those men killed, we can't even send word through this storm.
- The navy'll send a search plane, honey.
- No, the navy will assume that Lieutenant Quinlan decided to remain here rather than risk the storm.
- Enewetak's probably getting as much static as we are.
- Probably, which means we can't do anything until conditions improve.
- So why don't we let Hank keep trying while we begin our own working?
- We have to go over McLane's journal sooner or later, so it might as well be now.
[...]