That's a lot of rays! While holidaying in Mexico, photographer Joost van Uffelen and his partner Sandy van de Water were treated to a spectacular display by a massive school of migrating mobulas ... and they managed to capture the entire experience on camera. After photographing dolphins close to the Isla Espirito Santa in the Sea of Cortez, the duo were on their way to enjoy a well deserved lunch when they spotted the rays.

“Little white tips broke the surface over a large surface area and now and then a mobula jumped high into the air to splash back into the water soon thereafter. It turned out to be a huge school of mobulas and was exactly what we had been hoping for!” van Uffelen explains on his blog.

Mobulas are often called 'flying rays' for their habit of leaping out of the water in spectacular fashion. The couple quickly dived in to film the incredible spectacle. 

“Entering the greenish water made me realize that the [visibility] was not that great until the school came in sight,” van Uffelen wrote. “What an awesome spectacle to see! There must have been 400 of them schooling together close to the surface."