The Coast Guard was right.
3 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:44:39 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- The Coast Guard says your position's wrong.
- I'll be right with you, Skipper.
- Skipper?
- Yeah?
- I made a dumb kid's mistake.
- We're not as close to the coast as I thought we were. I was figuring in knots instead of miles.
- What about those 11 minutes? They can make the difference between the water and your own bed.
- They aren't there. They never were there.
[...]
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Actors: John Wayne (Dan Roman), Claire Trevor (May Holst), Robert Stack (John Sullivan), Jan Sterling (Sally McKee), Robert Newton (Gustave Pardee), Paul Fix (Frank Briscoe)
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