Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (often by disabling human epistemologies). I read Ralegh’s “tempestuous life” as a figure for the agency, relationality, and transcorporeality of the sea.