Diego Alvarez
Fish cold chain, brine slurries, drainage, and marine-ready cooler setups
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About
I focus on keeping fish pristine: bleeding, bagging, brining, and draining—then sealing cold. I test marine coolers for latch and drain reliability, hinge abuse, and footprint on wet decks. My recipes balance thermal mass with access so crews can work fast and clean.
Background
Three hours into a tuna run, the deck box ran warm. We bled, bagged, and sank the catch in a salt brine I mixed on the fly, thermometers clipped to gill plates. Back at dock, fillets cut like glass. That improvised slurry made me formalize a boat-ready icing SOP.
Perspective
I favor drain quality, gasket integrity, and sanitation over portability and aesthetics.
