Dear All,

This is remotely shell-related, but I have a question.

After a spell of more than nine years we have started to get back into
snorkelling, and will in time get back to scuba diving as we did before the
children were born.

Before our daughter was born we had the sense to sell our expensive dive
equiment, but kept our wetsuits, masks, fins, gloves etc. Imagine trying to
squeeze yourself into a wetsuit you haven't used for nine years and that is
supposed to be tight to start off with,  with a body that's gone through
three pregancies. Well, it still fits (sort of), but what my question is
related to is the dive bootees. Nine years of disuse have made the zippers
so terminally stuck that no matter of pulling or pushing will budge them.
It seems as if the zipper has corroded onto the zipper fabric, although it
isn't rusty, but some sort of white stuff that isn't salt. Before I trow
them in the bin and buy new bootees, maybe somebody knows a way to get
these infernal zippers unstuck.

Shell-related bit: I need the bootees to look for shells!

Patty