Person on the street report

I was eating lunch with my fiancé in the first class lounge around 1:00 PM in the afternoon we were listening to music, eating food having a good time in total. We had been there for maybe an half an hour to an hour or so when we heard something like a “Really loud lightning strike”. Seconds after the first sound we heard a similar noise but EVEN louder than the last time almost deafening to the ear. Then the boat started to shake and tilt at an extreme angle like we were in a storm but it was in the middle of the day with clear skies.  The next thing I know everyone was screaming including my finance and I, we had no clue what to do. The only thing we could do is to follow everyone out to deck, people were tripping over each other more screaming and crying was going on we were just trying to make it outside onto the deck to find out what was going on. When we did get onto the deck we saw the captain and the crew trying to secure lifeboats for people at this point we knew something was going wrong. We weren’t sure what was wrong though. We scurried to try and secure a life boat on our way to one of the many lifeboats though we saw many people just jumping off over the side of the boat. My fiancé started to cry that much more it almost turned into sobs at that point we started to run to the closest available life boat. When we reached the life boat we tried to help the crew undo the rope and other things. But we soon realized that the life boat was fitted to the boat with 2 chains. Plus the boat was sinking at such a fast rate so we just gave up on that life boat and ran to the next closest one which was probably 20 feet down the starboard side. When we reached that one we realized the same exact thing that it was strapped down do the boat with 2 chains just like the other one and we were unable to undo the chains.  At that point I tried to rip off boards from the life boat so we could at least use them in the water I could only manage to peel off one though. So I grabbed my fiancé’s hand and told her that we had to jump into the water if we wanted to survive, noticing that the boat had started to sink. I said “either we jump off now or we drown on this boat and I don’t want to drown”. So we jumped in to the water, we both grabbed onto the board that I had taken from the life boat. We swam for I don’t even know how long it seemed like hours before we finally saw a life boat in the water, there was only one person in the life boat we yelled and screamed and swam as fast as we could towards it until he finally saw us. When we reached the boat we goat aboard and just collapsed from the exhaustion of the swimming.