Present
As of 2010, Waterhen is home to the Australian Navy Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Group, which consists of:
- Clearance Diving Team One
- Six Huon class minehunters
- HMAS Huon
- HMAS Hawkesbury (in reserve since October 2011)
- HMAS Norman (in reserve since October 2011)
- HMAS Gascoyne
- HMAS Diamantina
- HMAS Yarra
- Several minor war vessels and commercially operated support vessels
- Diving Tender Seal
- Navigation training vessel Seahorse Mercator
- Torpedo Recovery Vessel Trevally
- Minesweeper Auxiliaries MSA Bandicoot and MSA Wallaroo
Waterhen is also used as a base for minor war vessels visiting or operating temporarily from Sydney.
Waterhen was used to represent a fictional Australian naval base in the first season of the television drama series Sea Patrol, which was primarily set on a Fremantle class patrol boat. Waterhen was used for the filming of several 'ashore' scenes, and was host to the decommissioned HMAS Wollongong, which was used to film scenes of the patrol boat docked at base.
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