It looks to me like perspective distortion from an ultra-wide lens. Both distant hands look disproportionately small. Even the right man's head is deformed, with the back larger than the face. There could be too little space in that room, forcing such extreme wide angle.
that was my first impression, but perspective distortion means distortion in all the photo parallel lines. Here only the humans and a small part of the wall near the ponytail are distorted. All lines in the table look strangely right.
It seems like a sort of bubble distortion field was aimed at modify only the arm, face and ear proportions of Mr Mackey for some reason. The ear of the other man may had been altered also, but I could we wrong here.
The man at the left lacks a finger also, but that could be a past accident.
All photos look very post-processed. The real work at the sea and life in a boat does not look like this at all.
