Job profile! Volcano guide to Eyjafjallajökull: Better Iceland than the Caribbean

In Iceland, things work a little differently, as the example of Kari Hrafn þorbergsson, who works as a marine engineer in the Caribbean, shows. Actually. But he likes the climate in rough Iceland better - that's why he drives tourists to volcanoes on his home vacation.

Jeep ride on the Eyjafjallajökull

Kari is a good driver: he controls the jeep over lava rocks, boulders and through the snow. Even when we cross the clouds and know everything around us, it does not give up, but with the help of the GPS we continually take us up to the summit of the Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that 2010 paralyzed air traffic all over Europe.

The twenty-five-year-old drills full-time for geothermal Energy in the Caribbean, on Monserrat and in the Dominican Republic. He is currently working for an Icelandic Companys, which is drilling for geothermal energy worldwide. He's only doing this job because it's Fun power.

In the main job geothermal drilling in the Caribbean

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Kari, who comes from Hella on the Icelandic south coast, studied engineering at the Velskoli Islands Marine for 5 years and then worked for the Icelandic Navy: “Back then, we were traveling a lot in the Mediterranean, off Spain or Greece,” he reports.

He has been with Islandic Drilling since October. He found the job through a newspaper ad. There are four companies in Iceland that specialize in this area. Since the Crisis In 2008, however, they increasingly have to look for orders abroad.

Volcano tours only for fun

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Kari is now always a month in the Caribbean and then travels back to Iceland for a month. He makes the volcano tours with the Superjeep only for fun.

A friend of his did two years ago Company South Coast Adventures founded. We equipped the jeeps with the particularly large wheels ourselves, he says. That is significantly cheaper. And Kari also knows a lot about the condition of the cars that make the tours possible in the first place.

What to do if the Jeep gets stuck?

"A special qualification you don't need it," he says. However, Kari works as a volunteer in a rescue team. He has also been driving a super jeep since he was young.

So he knows exactly what to do if the jeep is stuck in the snow, for example. “In winter, when there is more snow, we drive with two cars, that is for sure, because one can pull the other out of the snow.”

Dear Island as New Zealand

"Next week we're off to the Caribbean again," says Kari. In the coming year he will also work in New Zealand. That he does a lot in his job travel was already in him Study clear. “It's like fishermen here in Iceland who are often at sea for weeks,” he comments laconically.

So for now, his job is in Order. But Kari likes living in Iceland: "I like the Icelandic weather," he says, walking around in shorts at 10 degrees because it's summer after all. And sometimes he finds it a shame that his friends in Iceland are doing fun things and he can't be there.

So Kari doesn't want to spend his whole life through them Welt travel: “If I do the same Money could get to drive tourists around Iceland I would stay here,” he concludes.

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