According to some witnesses, the boilers exploded; which doesn't seem likely, as they were muffled in the first moments of the accident, but the crash of the fracture was enormous, which must have confused the stunned witnesses. Bow and amidship quickly submerged, leaving a large smear of floating objects.

Champagne bottles, among others, were collected by the city's oarsmen for several days after the shipwreck. The stern, which continued to float and was immediately released by the tugs, which tug. they also feared being pulled to the bottom. On board were only the captain, a crew member and the chief practical of Rio de Janeiro, who were quickly rescued by a tug.

However, surprising everyone, half the ship did not sink, drifting until it ran aground in the Imbuí Beach (Niterói) in front of the bow sinking site. Captain Douglas Lee and his first immediately were blamed for the accident by the court of law and had their records suspended for two and one year respectively.

In the days after the accident, the opening left in the rear half of the ship was sealed with steel plates and the entire segment was towed to a shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, where it was scrapped. The ship's machines were sold and, for many years, served as a unit thermoelectric, generating electricity for the city of Manaus. Only having been definitively retired at the beginning of 2000. Some sources claim that windows and other devices in the cockpit were used to decorate the Jurujuba late Clube salon in Niterói.