We are fast approaching the era of the advanced ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detector network.With these instruments there is the very realistic prospect of the direct detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence.In this talk I will briefly discuss the current state of the installation and commissioning of these detectors,review the achievements of the initial detectors with regards to compact binary coalescence.I will then discuss the expected rate of detections with the advanced detectors and the ongoing efforts towards low-latency searches and their impact on multi-messenger astronomy.