Well, the last paragraph does note that, especially how cameras are getting better at bursting, so in both cases the camera quickly took 20-30 pictures, and both photographers chose the same fraction of a second. Lightroom makes things like this more likely, since it lets photographers choose later and not when they press the shutter button.
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I don’t think it’s a timing difference; it is the position difference that accounts for the differences in the back- and foregrounds. An effect called parallax (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax).
Look at the source site (https://petapixel.com/2018/03/07/two-photographers-unknowingly-shot-millisecond-time/) for non-giffed and thus easier-to-compare pictures…
I can actually spot several distinctive waves in the foreground of Ron Risman’s picture that are way more to the left than the exact same waves in the Eric Gendon picture…
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It’s Photoshopped. I can see the pixels.
Anyone tried cardboxing it, yet?
You know what else seems neat? The two photographers didn’t know each other before this, and now they each have a new friend with similar interests 
Cool origin story for a friendship: I can picture it years from now when someone asks “How did you two friends meet each other?” Here’s hoping they enjoy this new association.
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After looking more closely via the original page, I agree with you. I think the different equipment & settings may also contribute to the differences, as one of them might not have resolved the horizon quite as clearly as the other.
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