Acronym for the Pacific Equatorial Dynamics Experiment.

The Pequod is the fictional 19th century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U.S. author Herman Melville. The Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, figure prominently in the story, which after the initial chapters takes place nearly entirely aboard the ship during a long three-year whaling cruise in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. Most of the characters in the novel are part of the crew of the ship, including the narrator Ishmael.