My dry suit zipper gave out 40 feet down in Puget Sound

Last Tuesday I was doing hull inspection on a ferry dock in Seattle, about 40 minutes into the dive, when I felt that cold trickle start at my shoulder. The zipper on my dry suit just let go, not a tear, just the teeth deciding they were done. I still had a good 20 minutes of bottom time left but I called it and did a slow ascent, water seeping in the whole way up. By the time I hit the surface I looked like a drowned rat and my thermals were soaked through. The suit is 6 years old and I've been cheap about replacing the zipper, figured I'd ride it out one more season. Has anyone else had a zipper fail mid-dive, and did you go with a shop repair or just bite the bullet on a new suit?

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