The waters of the world carry the remains of countless migrants whose journeys involved (in)calculable risks. Many drowned. In the process, others have faced associated risks or losses—from shipowners and agents to governments and port authorities, or families and communities. Those orchestrating migration have used both open and clandestine networks and intelligence and infrastructure systems in operations of large and small scale, legal and unlawful status, and organized or chaotic outcomes. Often they have been motivated by imperatives to leave one place for another on the grounds of seemingly irreconcilable differences arising from class, race, ethnicity, religion, or culture. Not one such migration voyage has been immune from wreck and ruin. Studying instances of these perilous migrations reveals deep, instructive divisions in the geographies of the drowned. At the heart of this chapter are three such geographies. First is the wreck of the Cataraqui emigrant ship off King Island in the Bass Strait in 1845, with the loss of 400 people. Second is the loss of one small dinghy off Türkiye’s coast in 2015 and the subsequent deaths of two young brothers alongside their mother and eight others. Third is a case involving human rights violations during the 2000s at Guantánamo Bay, when waterboarding resurfaced as a technology to raise the spectre of the living drowned. Each case reveals regimes of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence that again invite work to recognize, respect, and dignify.