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Researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst have analysed sediment samples taken from a Greenland lake adjacent to a former Norse farm.

It’s Chinatown: your guide to RISING’s golden district We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement There’s a lot to love about Melbourne’s Chinatown. It’s where the dim sim as we know it was born, for instance, but that’s the kind of distinction you’d expect from the oldest continuous Chinese settlement in the Western world. Part of its longevity might be due to its ability to tra...

>> only people with jet skis are involved with dope. >> right. >> reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 30th. he turned the boat and gave us 30 seconds to take the pictures at the exact spot tiffany hartley said they had stopped. >> this is the last place they came to, the old guerrero church. they took pictures on the front step, according to tiffany hartley. and they set down this channel to head back, and...

>> only people with jet skis are involved with dope. >> right. >> reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 30th. he turned the boat and gave us 30 seconds to take the pictures at the exact spot tiffany hartley said they had stopped. >> this is the last place they came to at the old guerrero church. they took pictures on the front step, according to tiffany hartley. and they set down this channel to head back, a...

In an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour. the same path the hartleys were on when tiffany says the attack began. >> theres a boat on our left and two on our right. on kind of towards the land, were kind of in the middle of the lake. and then thats when he motioned that -- we needed to go. >> reporter: did you see something in his eyes that said, this could be serious? >> i could just tell by his body language. you know, i saw him ...

Us just how safe it really was, but before he even passed the channel marker dividing the u.s. and mexican border, speedy made us promise not to raise our camera, not to raise any suspicion and told us theres no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path, like drug smugglers. >> only people with jet skis are involved with dope. >> right. >> reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 30th. he turned ...

They took pictures on the front step, according to tiffany hartley. and they set down this channel to head back and it was able five minutes into their voyage when they were approached by the boats. in an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour. the same path the hartleys were on when tiffany says the attack began. >> theres a boat on our left and two on our right. on kind of towards the land, were kind of in the middle of the lake. an...

Hartley said they had stopped. >> this is the last place they came to at the old guerrero church. they took pictures on the front step, according to tiffany hartley. and they set down this channel to head back and it was able five minutes into their voyage when they were approached by the boats. in an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour. the same path the hartleys were on when tiffany says the attack began. >> theres a boat on our ...

>> reporter: but there was some unfinished business. one last adventure david had long talked about, but never got around to. he had heard of a church partially submerged in falcon lake on the mexican side in an abandoned village called old guerrero. perfect for a couple who loved their jet skis and loved adventure. >> im just like, okay. lets go see. >> reporter: had they asked local law enforcement would have warned them about pirates on the lake. had they asked, captain stacy holland would ha...

>> weve had along the border shootings. weve had along the border murders. home invasions, burglaries, rapes. all types of crime where its associated with what i call spillover violence. >> reporter: siggy gonzalez has been the sheriff for 16 year. >> i remember when i first started in the 1970s when this was used for human trafficking. been used like that forever. >> reporter: and lately, even before the hartleys trip to falcon lake, gonzalez says a new threat has emerged. pirates. >> totally i...