Incredible images capture thousands of silverside fish - PHOTO

The shoal creates waves of silver light, swimming inside underwater caves in the Devil’s Grotto off the Cayman Islands.The small fish believes in strength in numbers, confusing predators as they swim as one big shift.These amazing photographs were captured by Belgian photographer Ellen Cuylaerts, 44, on a diving trip to the Devil's Grotto, Cayman Islands.‘Every year predators and divers await the arrival of the silversides,’ says Ellen, now of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.‘It's a beautiful spectacle that I'm able to witness close to home. My love for summers in the Cayman Islands has everything to do with the arrival of the silver magic.‘Tarpons and other predators hunt the silversides, but by swimming in unison they can escape and continue to grow bigger.’Each year millions of these silvery fish arrive in coastal waters between June and August. The average length of a silverside fish is between one and four inches, and they hide in underwater grottos until they have grown big enough to survive on their own.Ellen says: ‘It makes you humble to witness nature at its best.‘Sometimes I lower my camera and just enjoy being in the middle of this spectacle and watch them moving in unison.‘The first time I dived at this site I fell in love with the light under the water.‘From then on I studied where natural light could reach the bottom, where the fish could hide and where the best angles were, all to create the best photographs I could and do the environment justice.‘I keep going back again and again to capture the show and I can't get enough of it.‘People are often surprised by the beauty the oceans hold, and they start to care and want to protect our planet, and that is my goal.’(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az