It's right there in the article: From the bridge Chambers quickly consulted task force commander Adm. William Harris, who was at his battle station below deck.

It's right there in the article: From the bridge Chambers quickly consulted task force commander Adm. William Harris, who was at his battle station below deck. “The admiral ordered me to tell the Bird Dog to ditch,” Chambers later recalled. [...] Assuming he would be court martialed, Chambers ordered those helicopters thrown overboard as well. He later told interviewers that since he expected to be deposed by prosecutors, he turned away from the action to avoid seeing exactly how many were pushed into the sea. [...] Chambers kept his job as the aircraft carrier’s captain and was later promoted to rear admiral; he retired in 1984. Nobody was prosecuted for the estimated $10 million loss of the helicopters that Chambers ordered overboard.