However, Ross kicks him off the team due to his unstable behavior and substance abuse issues. Yang stops him and tells them that is not what they do.
However, Gunner becomes unhinged and tries to hang a pirate. The Expendables take out the pirates and save the hostages. As the film opens, the team is deployed to the Gulf of Aden to save a group of hostages trapped at sea on a ship controlled by Somali pirates. The team consists of Ross, his second in command Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Jet Li), weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), military veteran Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), and demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture). Parking is available 200 meters before the Cable Station Building across from the Church of Immaculate Conception.Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leads a group of mercenaries based in New Orleans known as the Expendables. Please note there is no parking available on the Cable Station premises. Listen to the entrepreneur Cyrus Field I and the Knight of Kerry regale about their adventure, try to send your own morse code message and try to break the code, learn about the underwater cables of today and how communications technology has changed.Īpril to October, Thursday to Sunday 10:00 am to 5:30 pm (last entry at 5:00 pm). The laying of the Transatlantic Cable is a story of human endurance, science, adventure and genius and is told in the immersive visitor experience at the Valentia Cable Station. The wire that changed the world, the Eighth Wonder of the World, reduced the time to send a message across the ocean from weeks to minutes and heralded the birth of global communications.
Over 150 years ago, the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Valentia Island in Ireland and Heart's Content in Newfoundland, Canada, connecting the Old World with the new World. Eighth Wonder at the Valentia Transatlantic Cable Station
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