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I had a similar thing happen to me early last fall while drifting eels in a famous southern cape cod rip... Threw out a trouser python eel, about 22" and almost as thick as my wrist. Had a vicious take on it, and whatever it was peeled out a ton of drag (aided by the fast moving current). It then dropped the eel, and as we were cranking it back in it came back again and hit the eel on the surface with a hell of a splash and took off on another run. Once AGAIN it dropped it, and this time the eel came back unmolested. It was covered in diamond-shaped tooth marks, each of which went in about 1/8-1/4", just like you described. Additionally, the tooth marks themselves were in a diamond pattern- you could see the shape of the upper and lower jaw from the pattern of the teeth marks (kinda tough to describe). My thought was a big fluke, or possibly a hardtail.
The half-moon bite mark makes me think dogfish... But wouldn't a spiny dog just shake and tear right through the eel? They bite whole herring in half no problem... I just think it's wild at just how many things will eat an eel. I want to throw them at tuna.
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