Hey, I'd be interested if the PTB would say yes!
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My storyline is this: thirty some odd years have passed, and so have Captain Rube and Eli Tolts. Junior, in the years since the Dugan Salvage Yard at SDC closed, has drifted around, at first working as a deckhand on Mississppi River steamboats, later, as a hand on ocean steamers that visited European and Asian rim ports of call. Now Junior is in his 50's, and has resettled in SDC. He updates the diving bell with technology ideas he picked up as a young man on his world travels. Now, Junior's nephew and niece, Ruben and Ruby Dugan, help him out as pilots. The adventure is much the same as the old attraction, dodging underwater rockslides, sinkholes, almost striking the wreckage of an old diving bell stuck in mud on the bottom of Lake Silver. Oh, and trying to evade Eli Tolts' son in his submergible! After loosing Eli's son, the diving bell finds a narrow, dark passage at the bottom of the lake...Grandpappy's old silver mine! When the treasure of silver is spotted, the ghosts of Grandpappy Dugan and Captain Rube appear...and of course, the end result is the same, the diving bell is blown out of the water, and comes to rest on a ledge, allowing the volunteers to narrowly escape with their lives!
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With today's technology, you could have alternate storylines. From reading on threads here, apparently a few theme parks do this now with their simulator attractions. There are many possibilities. With the cost of operating such an attraction, I think that unfortunately it would not be economically feasible to have a Ruben or Ruby in each capsule with the guests. The pilot would have to join Captain Junior in the loft above the audience's heads. The capsules would probably have to be smaller, and there would have to be more than five simulators for capacity reasons. Anyway, the PTB at SDC have to make the decision on bringing back this attraction, and it would probably take two to four years minimum to work out the details, get the attraction built, and then opened.
