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Main Image: A sea chest is a kind of wooden case typically used by sailors aboard the ship to store their belongings. A sea chest is one of the personalized possessions of the sailor who decorated it with care during his free time on the ship. The sailor used the sea chest basically as the storage locker it is meant to be but additionally used it variedly as a workbench, seat or table.
I suspect that the sea chest is that tall because the water line is a little more than the middle of the sea chest. First of all you have to be able to clean the strainer in it, if the entire sea chest was below the water line you would have to pull the boat to clean the strainer. Second the top T fitting has no shut off valves. third the engine exhaust manifold appears to be below the top of the sea chest.