# Fleet size/number of mariners, GoM?
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum
**Created:** [July 15, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725 "2013-07-15T22:59:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@txh2oman](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/txh2oman)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725/1 "2013-07-15T22:59:11Z")
I’m trying to get a good ballpark on either the size of the fleet (FSV/OSV/PSV – workboats, essentially) and/or the number of mariners in the GoM, though I’d be happy to have nationwide or even global (oilfield) numbers.
The search function yields this thread: [http://gcaptain.com/forum/professional-mariner-forum/4553-captains-coast-guard-data-base.html](http://gcaptain.com/forum/professional-mariner-forum/4553-captains-coast-guard-data-base.html), which indicates roughly 200,000 mariners nationwide based on reports almost a decade old.
I’m not likely to spend $1600 on the [workboat.com](http://workboat.com) “Size of the Fleet” report, and neither that site/publication nor Professional Mariner, nor OMSA, nor Marcon Int’l. have anything useful that I can find.
Help? Or sources?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@txwooley](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/txwooley)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725/2 "2013-07-16T03:01:42Z")
At the rate some of these guys are building, plus the low volume of new guys entering the industry, pretty soon there will be more vessels than mariners.
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### Author:  [@coldduck](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/coldduck)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725/3 "2013-07-16T05:15:43Z")
[http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/](http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/)
Wealth of knowledge and figures.
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### Author:  [@ChiefRob](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ChiefRob)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fleet-size-number-of-mariners-gom/10725/4 "2013-07-16T13:38:22Z")
Just about every boat company list’s there fleet on there web site, it would take a little time but the info is there if you want to look it up, for actual fleet size. Then I guess you would just have to figure 2 crews basically for each boat, some would only be 1.5 that work 2 for 1, but once again it should be a rough guess. Much better than paying 1600 bucks to some smuck. The new builds hitting the water would skew the number a little but should still be not that hard to figure out if you want to spend the time on it.