User blog comment:Meganoide/Comparison between Whitebeard's and Shanks' crew/@comment-3060121-20100921010659

I doubt that shanks has only 10 crew members. Having small crews is very unusual except in newly formed pirate crews. Oda has never shown all of Whitebeard's crew @ once its just too much for readers @ 1 time. I'm guessing he has @ least 100. If it was a small crew I think the WG would have taken action.