"Herzog, for whom nature is an obscenity, a squalid turmoil in which life-forms flourish briefly in order to kill or be killed before, as he puts it, ‘just rotting away’, reserves an especial distaste for the ‘sheer hell’ of underwater existence."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/david-trotter/go-for-it-losers