They are planning on sight fishing for cobia, I think. Will be not far off the beach. Look at the size of the tackle, it isn't tuna stuff, that's for sure. Pretty amusing photo, I think, but it actually isn't as dangerous as what I saw some charter clients doing down south of Hatteras last month--they were standing not just on the bow of the big Carolina boats (none of them have any railing whatsover), but there were a couple of guys standing on the flybridge hardtop hanging onto the VHF antennas. That stepladder looks to be pretty well secured, as long as nobody tries standing all the way on top of it, it ought to work