It's a matter of opinion but I strongly disagree, the brief existence of a lightning bolt is going to force the exact same moment out of two photographers, and they were shot from two wildly different locations. The analysis was fairly cool but I see cool things every day.

The sheer improbability of two photographers capturing the same wave in the exact same way from meters apart and publishing the same shot is captivating. There are thousands of waves daily, and thousands of interesting places to capture them.

not really. one you setup your tripod there, you are already focusing on the light house... and then when a wave is crashing in, you just hold down the shutter for a few burst shots... very easy to replicate the same shot...

say if it was a photo group... then the chance of same shot being outputted is even greater