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In an incident during a surfing competition in Australia, a shark flew out of the ocean. A surfing competition was halted because of it. The scene was captured by an onlooker who claimed that the image was "110 percent real."

An amateur photographer, Steph Bellamy, was looking at mothers participate in a competition on the east coast of Australia. She suddenly noticed something splash in the water. Onlookers, too, yelled, asking what it was.

The photographer told the Telegraph there there were two mothers out in the waters who saw the shark, and they, too, confirmed the same. She continued that the shark breached twice. She saw the splash of the first launch of the shark and then took a photo of it when it launched again and that all of it happened in the blink of an eye, but she still managed to capture a photograph of it through her smartphone.

She added the image was not Photoshopped or tampered with. The image captured by Bellamy has been sent to the state government so it can assess the threat.

Steph said that when the judges came over and looked at the photograph, they were all shocked that it was a shark. She went on to say it was a whopping big shark. She added the photo of the shark photobombing the surfers is very real.

The competition was suspended for a period of around 10 to 15 minutes. It was then resumed as the mothers who were surfing were unconcerned about the danger the shark posed to them. The authorities said the shark could have either been a spinner shark, thresher or mako. Spinner sharks are found in tropical and warm temperature waters and grow to a length of about three metres.

Bellamy said the mothers went out to the waters to finish off their heat. She added she wasn't surprised that the contest was resumed and the mothers were allowed to go surf again.

According to Bellamy, the people were in the environment of the sharks. She said that the sharks were part of the ocean and the people were playing in the background. She added that since it was a surfing environment, none of the women were worried, scared or hesitant about going back into the waters.