Jianli County, China (CNN)Survivor: Chinese cruise ship capsized quickly during violent storm. Most of the passengers on the Eastern Star. When the ship with more than 450 people aboard overturned late Monday June 3, 2015
, he said, it happened so quickly he only had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket and get out of his cabin. He went into the dark and choppy waters of the Yangtze River during the middle of the storm, later confirmed to be a tornado.