Yeah, my GF and I were fishing the river last year, we were above a shoal tearing up the trout. A guy drifts past us in a boat similar to mine and decides to go on down the shoal (rapids), got hung on a submerged rock and then capsized. I couldn't get to them. I told her sit down on the deck and we'd run back up the dock and tell the people who had a boat that COULD get to them. She says let's go, but she didn't get out of the pedestal seat. I told her again and she said she'd be ok. We motored up river a ways and my motor died, of all things, I later found a tick (dog tick) in the main jet. Anyway, when it died, the boat came off plane and she wasn't ready for it, and over the front of the boat she went and into the cold water. She's a confident swimmer and didnt' have any problem but it could have been a LOT worse. She wasn't happy but when she found out that it wasn't my fault she was fine, in about 5 minutes we both laughed it off. Yes we did get to the dock, and told the guys and they took off. About an hour later they came back up river pulling them in their boat, about 3/4 submerged. They were ok but shaken. Inexperienced on that stretch of water.
Fine to have pedestal seats but operator and/or passengers don't need to be in them while under way. Use common sense.