As the “migration crisis” unfoldsLampedusa at the borderlands between Africa and EuropeLocal communities, the Mediterranean Sea has become one of the most surveilled areas in the world. However, the transit of migrants remains invisible on many occasions, especially when they do not succeed in reaching the European shores alive. This tragically human “cemetery-fication” of the Mediterranean Sea invites us to think about an often-unspoken element of the security paradigm, which border policies deploy to justify their measures; that is, what happens below the surface? How do security-policies succeed or fail if we look at the transit of the dead, and what is the attention, care, and interest of securing the mobility of the dead migrant’s body? In this chapter, I will shed light on such questions by providing an ethnographic-based anthropological account of the local humanitarian practitioners and non-humanitarian local actors who experienced the outcomes of border death on the island of LampedusaLampedusa in the past decades. If the living is often left to die without accountability, how do the dead move around the Mediterranean, and what are the effects of their (im)mobility?