I don't mean to be a wet blanket on a beautiful video and obviously a very fun time. I imagine it this way:
1.) Someday I'm diving and a big green like that swims right up to me, catching me by surprise. I hope that I could stop, think, act rather than freak out. Because I've spent time reading posts on ScubaBoard, and have seen some of these guys fairly close resting on the bottom on dives, I know it probably won't tear into me, unless I grasp or strike it, and that if I can just hold still, it might poke around a bit, but either leave or let me swim away.
2.) My wife, who is afraid of snakes (we know eels are fish, not snakes) and more skittish than I am, a casual vacation diver who doesn't spend time on ScubaBoard and has, oh, maybe 40 life time dives, give or take? Let's say she feels someone nudge her arm or leg, glances over and there's a 6 foot big green moray looking at her, teeth in plain site?
The potential to panic and crash into something, or bolt for the surface without exhaling, is there. So is the potential to try to violently shove the eel away, or kick it. If the eel retaliates...
Richard.
P.S.: Mike, I'm glad you got your footage. It's beautiful and if I'd been there I'd have treasured that memory for life.