It could have been either a little more than a quarter to one or so, well, about ten to one and then I left the car deck and went to the 1st deck.
Then I checked the zero-deck which was down at the bottom of the ferry, there was also a sauna underneath the 1st deck.
And then I walked through those floors, the third, the fourth and I went upstairs in front of the Information up to the 8th deck, to the bridge.
I watched ... Einar Kukk. Yes, he was there in the Admiral’s Pub. I went up to the nightclub and I looked into the room. There were only about five people. I looked into it. I was near the Admiral’s Pub, I went  straight ahead and went upstairs. The Admiral’s Pub is near the Information counter on the same deck (5th deck).

Before the Finnish Court he explained this and the subsequent sequences as follows:

• That is, I was going up from the First Deck, past that Pub Admiral where that Einar Kukk sees me, I went to the Information and from there I went up to the Bridge. That is, I passed the Information because there are stairs next to the Information that go up to the Bridge. And we climbed the stairs, Captain Andresson climbing before me.
  It was either 1 o’clock or few minutes past 1. The watch officers change shifts at about 1 o’clock, so they had changed when we came. When the Captain came to the bridge, they talked that four main engines were functioning and the speed was 15 knots, and after that there was talk about the bang or these bangs and then the watch officers said that it should be checked, that there had been a telephone call from downstairs, that a clicking noise could be heard there, or how should I say, that one should go with the boatswain to check the situation.
  
  That is, first I tried to get in touch with the boatswain, from the bridge by radio or telephone, but there was no answer. Then the watch officer told me to go down there to call the boatswain by a regular telephone, he was obviously asleep, so I should call him with a regular phone so to speak, to wake him up. Then there is a lift under the Bridge, but I thought that I could not get to the Car Deck with the lift because the doors were shut. Then I ran, I ran to the Information on Deck 5 to ask them at the Information to unlock the doors of the Car Deck so that I could get to the Car Deck. And when I went to the Information, there was a passenger who had just won money at the slot machine, and that person was there heaping Swedish five-crowns. The person at the Information was just counting Swedish crowns and that person asked me to wait a moment until the counting was over. Then I said that the doors should be unlocked, the answer was that they had already been unlocked, that they had already gone downstairs, but I cannot say who had gone there.

Linde continues:

• This person at the Information was quite new or a quite new person on the ship, actually working there for the first time, he did not know her. At that moment the ship created a first heavy list and we were all thrust on to the floor and the goods in the shop flew from the desk on to the floor. After that I stood up because the tilting lessened enough for me to move. Then I ran from Deck 5 to Deck 4, and on Deck 4 the stairs were already full of people, in their underwear, half-naked, trying to make their way up. They ran from there and moved upwards. That is, I did not manage to get down because the stairs on Deck 4, they are so narrow that two people cannot pass each other without one of them having to move right against the wall. Then I ran up to Deck 7 from where it was possible to get out and there I heard an Estonian person shouting loudly that there was water on Deck 1. Deck 1 is below the Car Deck.

• I ran at once to the 4th Information deck. A Swede had won money and he was counting it. He was just saying how happy he was that he had won and then the ferry listed for the first time, well, like … threw people off their feet down to the floor, things fell off from the selves in the shop. The shop was next to the Information counter. The slot machines came off the wall and then the ferry was kind of pulled back. I was able to stand up again and I ran down to the 4th deck. There were the staircases, well, the staircases led to the car deck, from there I could see the crowd, the people had gone mad, they were running upstairs in their underpants, well, they were in their underwear and were running upstairs shouting: “Water! Water! Well, the Estonian was there, well, he was shouting that there was water on the 1st deck, well, the water was there.
  
  He fell into water, well, in his cabin. And there were so many of them that I simply made for nowhere. That staircase … it was not possible for two persons to go upstairs or downstairs next to each other anyway, it was crowded people were coming from all directions, I ran up to the 7th deck with them and I reported on the bridge, well, … that … I remembered a cabin number. The Estonian shouted, I asked what his cabin number was. He answered that it was either 1196 or 1096; something like that. He had fallen into the water in the cabin already. I reported on the bridge to find out about the water and well, I said that it was impossible to get it under control.
  
  And then the ferry listed again, I lost my walkie-talkie. Then I started to push people out, well, they were in panic already. I had the first clock for a long time, well, I bought it because I had to be on duty and I had it on my wrist. It showed the right time. So, after having outlived the panic on board of the ferry, after having come down in the liferaft along the side of the ferry, thus, when that hysteria was over, I looked at the watch, it was almost half past one a.m., the ferry was on the side, thus everybody was in panic. It was somewhere between 01:25-30, I remember it exactly.