The "Boa Esperança" sailing, to the right, the state in which the gateway was left after the collision.

A failure in the engine led to the replica of the lusitan carabela "Boa Esperança" to collide with one of the "Duques de Alba" walkways that owns the Harbour Authority of Vigo at the east end of its transatlantic dock, and which are used when several cruises match in the Galician installation. It all happened in the last hour of the afternoon, when he proceeded to dock in the Viguese docks.

It seems that the Portuguese crew could not avoid the collision by running out of machine, which caused a very violent blow that ended with one of the three walkways at the bottom of the Viguese ría, precisely the first of them that links the transatlantic dock with the "first concrete island." The technicians of the Port of Vigo initially spoke of a two-day period to remedy the problem, but in view of the serious damage to the catwalk (as can be seen in the photograph), they are more cautious with the solution.